Intern needs your website programming expertise

[archcommus]

I've been an intern at a software company for about five months now, so far I really like it. All summer I did work in MS Access with VB and their databases to develop a system for forecasting earnings and generating reports on past months. Now they are asking me to develop a solution to put these reports up on their employee intranet website.

Basically, I'm going to start off by developing my own site from scratch locally, that talks with my local saved copy of their database, and when that is done and working for the most part we are going to try to figure out a way to "plug in" my site into their main site.

I have a few questions as I know very little about web design. FYI I have VB, C++, and Java programming experience.

1) Can such a site be built with simple HTML or am I going to need to explore something more advanced like PHP? I know very little about that. The site will basically need to show invoice reports FOR the specific employee that is logged into the site at that time.

2) The guy I'm working with told me the main site checks to see if you are on the domain, and if so asks for your Windows account login credentials. He said this info could be "passed" to my site so I know which member is logged in. I'm not sure how to go about implementing something like that.

3) What software should I be using to do this, and what other languages should I maybe research?

Thanks a lot for any help.

 

[txrandom]

PHP would be easy to set up. I recommend you read this http://hudzilla.org/php/ and you can set up a simple website like that pretty easily.

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

Originally posted by: txrandom
PHP would be easy to set up. I recommend you read this http://hudzilla.org/php/ and you can set up a simple website like that pretty easily.

My eyes!!!

 

[Jaxidian]

If you're looking for something relatively simple to do but you're a smart dev who doesn't blindly do stupid things, I'd recommend ASP.NET/C# 2.0 and SQL Server 2005 (go download Visual Studio 2005 Express or something like that and SQL Server 2005 Express - both are free but fully-functional enough for what you need). PHP and any of the other server-side web technologies can do the job too but the msft route is the route I would go simply because there are tons of those jobs out there and having those skills is definitely a good thing for you. 🙂

-Jax

 

[archcommus]

Originally posted by: Jaxidian
If you're looking for something relatively simple to do but you're a smart dev who doesn't blindly do stupid things, I'd recommend ASP.NET/C# 2.0 and SQL Server 2005 (go download Visual Studio 2005 Express or something like that and SQL Server 2005 Express - both are free but fully-functional enough for what you need). PHP and any of the other server-side web technologies can do the job too but the msft route is the route I would go simply because there are tons of those jobs out there and having those skills is definitely a good thing for you. 🙂

-Jax

Thanks. However, I already have a job currently, and since I'm developing this solution for them, I would like to use the best method applicable to this scenario. So, considering JUST this situation, would you still recommend the method you suggested? I already have SQL Server 2005 Express installed for use with my Access and database work. However I thought that and the PHP design of the actual website were two totally different things. Are you recommending I build a website using ASP.NET/C#?